Understanding, Designing and Conducting Qualitative Research in Education / Edition 1

by John F Schostak, Schostak

Overview

This book is more than an introduction to doing research - it aims to help readers identify what is new and important about their subject, how their research relates to previous work and how it may be used to bring about change at individual, community, national or even international levels. A total strategy is offered focussing on the notion of the project as an organizing framework that ensures that the methods chosen are appropriate to the subject and aim of the study. The intention throughout is to help readers move from being able to apply methods to being able to interrogate the theoretical underpinnings of particular perspectives so that they can feel confident about the particular kinds of knowledge claim they are making.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780335205097
Publisher:	Open University Press
Publication date:	01/01/2002
Series:	Conducting Educational Research Series
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.55(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Introduction - Finding bearings - Subjects: choices and consequences - The other: its objects and objectivity - Handling complexity and uncertainty - Sense and nonsense: braving the postmodern, broaching the novel - Being shy of the truth - Framing texts and evidence: con/texts, intertextuality and rhetoric - Framing ethics and political issues - Framing ethical actions - Writing it - Conclusion - References - Index.